Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classified 60,000 of them as potentially, if not definitely, hazardous to human health. They have been dumped or buried for years on the plausible but, as it turned out, ! tragically wrong theory that they would lose their toxicity during the decades it would take them to drift through layers of soil and rock into deep water supplies. There is no way to remedy in a few years at least a century of such misguided, if innocent, practices...
...molten mantle below and normally traveling at the pace of a millimeter a week, equivalent to the growth rate of a fingernail. Geophysicist Bill Spence of the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado says, "They're just like a mobile jigsaw puzzle." The plates' travels result in continental drift, the formation of mountains, volcanoes--and earthquakes...
...give up hunting two or three years ago," he explained. "Afraid I'd get hurt tramping around. I backed off a creek bank once. Don't know why I'm here to tell it today. My daddy was a country doctor from over in Franklin County. Did I just drift off again? Well, they tell me you get that way when...
...predicting moderately faster growth for the second half of 1985, board members counted on a continued downward drift in the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar. The sky-high price of the dollar has been the chief cause of the trade deficit, because it has made American exports expensive and goods from abroad alluringly cheap. A weakening of the dollar would slow down the pace of imports and thus encourage consumption of domestic goods. Although the dollar has risen a bit in recent weeks, it now stands some 9% lower against major foreign currencies than it did when...
...timely contrast to Sarah's decisiveness and Muriel's zeal. Ethan's violent death is right off the 6 o'clock news. Even Macon finally proves conspicuously contemporary by taking charge of his life. The move seems a bit too abrupt for a character whose susceptibility to drift has been so carefully established. But this is a minor disappointment in a novel animated by witty invention and lively personalities, including Edward the feisty corgi, whose bite is just as bad as his bark...